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Hawaii Considers Bill to Ignore Repeated Requests for Obama's Birth Certificate
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe small but vocal group of conspiracists who question whether Barack Obama was born in the United States continues to pepper the state of Hawaii with requests for the president's birth certificate -- and some state officials are fed up. Now a bill has been introduced in the state House to allow government workers to ignore the repeated demands of the Obama skeptics known as birthers, The Associated Press reported. Hawaii officials have repeatedly issued statements that Obama was born in the state and that the Health Department holds a copy of his original birth certificate. A copy of the ...
East Coast Birthers Beef With West Coast Birthers
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyIn the "I Love the 2008 Campaign" department, the "birthers" are alive and not so well. Politico likens the current schism between rival Barack Obama birth certificate conspiracy theorists to the hip-hop beefs of the 90's. East Coast Birther chief Philip Berg has filed suit against West Coast Birther poobah Orly Taitz, whose name sounds like an inflammation best treated with some Gold Bond powder. Among the complaints is the charge that Taitz called Berg a "Shyster." That's not to be confused with the more recent adjective form, "Shysty." YesToDemocracy.com is all over it, as usual: Ladies and ...
Bill Would Require Presidents to Submit Birth Certificates
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyFreshman Congressman Bill Posey (R-FL) has introduced a bill in the House that would require future presidential candidates to submit a birth certificate to prove that they are natural-born citizens in order to qualify to run for the office. Rep. Posey says that the bill is not aimed at President Barack Obama, who continues to be the subject of rumors about the circumstances of his birth, but is intended to remove all doubt surrounding future presidents.Posey cited the cries of illegitimacy that greeted President Bush after the disputed election of 2000 and the conspiracy theories about ...
Politico Throws Gasoline on Birther Fire
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyActually, they're called "birfers" by the cool kids, and a 3-page writeup in Politico is just the thing to make these xenophobic losers do this.That's fine with me. The deeper these people become involved in this nonsense, the less time they'll have to screw up important things. Also, as the piece points out, they make normal conservatives look bad. These folks revolt even slavery mitigator Michael Medved. From Politico: The conservative talk show host Michael Medved recently referred to the movement's leaders as "crazy, nutburger, demagogue, money-hungry, exploitative, irresponsible, filthy ...
Flip-Flopping Senator Shelby Now Says Obama Is a Citizen
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyTalk about spineless! Senator Richard Shelby (R-America Goddammit) appears to have done a complete 180 on the leading issue of today's economic crisis: President Obama's citizenship.Just last week, Shelby convened a quorum of dignitaries at the All Steak Restaurant in Cullman, Alabama, and allegedly said of Obama:"Well his father was Kenyan and they said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven't seen any birth certificate. You have to be born in America to be president."But all of a sudden, Shelby has shifted his talking points-- to the extent that he makes John Kerry's voting record seem downright ...
Barack Obama's Real Birth Certificate Could Be Made of Kleenex
By Tommy Christopher - Politics Daily...for all the difference it will make now.My friends at YesToDemocracy.com have been following the obsessed believers (called "birfers") in the whacked out conspiracies about Barack Obama's birth certificate for a long time now. The birfers' struggle to unseat Barack Obama remained under the sanity radar until around the time our Liza reported on them. Their court-clogging antics have been good for some chuckles, and not much more.But in these last hours before Barack Obama is inaugurated, I'd like to indulge them, and perhaps even vindicate them.Let's just assume Barack Obama's birth ...
Obama Birth Certificate Injunction Denied by the Supreme Court
By Michael Kraskin - Politics DailyThe birthers' quest to prove Barack Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate is fake took one step forward and one step back today. Two days ago, Philip Berg filed and "injunction pending the disposition of the petition for a writ of certiorari." Presumably, this was an appeal that the court put the brakes on Obama's inauguration until they have determined whether or not to even bother hearing his case. Injunctions are only granted when the court sees the case as having merit and being likely to succeed. Berg would also have had to prove that irreparable harm would occur if the injunction were not ...
Supreme Court Rejects Another Obama Citizenship Challenge
By Michael Kraskin - Politics DailyBirthers were handed another defeat today by the U.S. Supreme court. The court once again chose to not hear a suit targeting Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as President. This one came from Cort Wrotnowski: Wrotnowski argued that Obama was a British subject at birth and therefore cannot meet the requirement for becoming president. He wanted the high court to halt presidential electors from meeting to formally elect Obama as president. This is consistent with last week's ruling on a similar case presented by Leo Donofrio.Ok, birthers, you apparently have two more chances to get your tin ...
Hot Seat: Obama's Birth Certificate
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Supreme Court Not Considering Obama's Birth Certificate Case
By Michael Kraskin - Politics DailyToday is the day that all the Barack Obama birth certificate conspiracy theorists--or "birthers," as they're known in some circles*--have been waiting for. Yes, at long last, it's Birth Certificate Day at the Supreme Court! Time for the highest court in the land to settle this dispute once and all. Or so the "birthers" would like to believe. They're a tad mistaken, though. That's because the authenticity question over of Obama's birthplace document has been put to rest innumerable times. No, the question before the court today is not whether Obama was born in the U.S., it's whether that birth ...
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